Everton
Football Club are a Merseyside institution. From Harry Catterick’s
‘School of Science’ via Howard Kendall’s all-conquering team of
the mid-80s to today’s resurgence under David Moyes, the Blues have
frequently challenged for the greatest prizes in the English game.
Meanwhile the club has enjoyed a century in the top flight of English
football, an achievement underlining the clubs standing in the game.
In Goodison Maestros, author Dean Hayes selects the 50 greatest
players to have pulled on an Everton jersey since the war. Naturally
any such selection will be subjective; how could one compare ‘The
Golden Vision’ Alex Young with the likes of eighties heroes Sharp,
Gray and Reid and modern day wonderkid Wayne Rooney? Whatever the
argument, Hayes’ choices are bound to be controversial.

Liverpool
Football Club remain one of the most successful clubs in Europe.
Most of their achievements in the last century are unlikely to be
rivalled while the players that made it happen are among the greatest
to have graced the British game. From Dalglish to Souness via Owen,
Fowler and Keegan, those that have pulled on the red shirt down
the years have made history both at home and in Europe. Anfield
is home to a bewildering array of silverware - since 1945 4 European
Cups, 3 UEFA Cups, 14 First Division titles, 6 FA Cups and 6 League
Cups have swelled the Anfield trophy cabinet. In Dean Hayes’ collection
of the top 50 Liverpool players since the war, tough decisions have
had to be made. Clearly, heroes from the club’s golden era in the
70s and 80s dominate, but what of the likes of Jimmy Melia, Ron
Yeats and Alan A’Court who began Liverpool’s revolution under Bill
Shankly in the 1960s?